Whip-socket



(N0 Model.)

E. W. SCOTT.

WHIP SOCKET.

'Patented Peb. 24, T885.

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i llNiTnn STATns ERASTUS W ILBER SCOTT, OF

WAURECAN, CONNECTICUT.

WHIP-SOCKET.

SPECIFECATION forming part or' Letters Patent N0. 312,768, dated February 24, 1885.

Application iled November 17, 1884. (No model To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ERAsTUs WILBER SCOTT, of Wauregan, in the county of Vindham, of the State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in VVhip-Sockets; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, ot' which Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of a whipvsocket provided with my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section taken through the lower clamp, to be described. Fig. 5 is a side view, Fig. 6 a bottom View, and Fig. 7 alongitudinal section, of the elliptical annular cap. Fig. 8 is an edge view, and Fig. 9 a top view, ofthe studded annulus, which, with the elliptical annular cap, constitutes the' elastic diaphragm holder. Fig. 10 is an edge view of the rockernut of the lower clamp.

In the said drawings, the body ofthe whipsocket is shown at A, it being open at its upper end, and there provided with the elastic-dia` phragm holder B,within which and extending across it is the perforated india-rubber or elastic diaphragm a, having made in it a circular mouth, b, to receive the whip. The said holder being an annular cap elliptical in shape, and formed very like a horseshoe, it being to encompass and fit upon the upper end of the body A, which, instead of being at right-angles to the axis of the whip-socket, is inclined thereto, as represented, the whole being so as to cause the perforated diaphragm a to in- Cline to such axis. There are three holes, f, g, and h, made in the cap d, they being arranged asshown, and adapted to receive two hooked wires, i 7c, extended into them and hooked upon the upper fastening-clamp, C, as represented in Fig. 3. The inner part of the holder B is an elliptical annulus, l, provided with a series of spurs or projections, m, extending upward from it, and arranged at equal distances apart.. The diaphragm a, placed within the cap d, and between it and the annulus Z, has the spurs fm extending through it, they -socket and the dasher.

serving to prevent it from being displaced by a whip while or after being introduccdinto the socket. By having the top of the whipsocket and the elastic diaphragm inclined to the axis of the body aV whip, when dropped into the top ofthe socket, is guided to advantage into the hole of the diaphragm, and by having such hole circular and inclined to the said axis it will hold the whip firmer in the socket than would be the case were the diaphragm square to or at right angles with the said axis. rlhe lower clamp consists ot' two duplex jaws, D D, adapted to grasp the whip- They are drawn upon them by means ot' a headed screw, E, and a rocker-nut, F. The said nut is placed within a chamber or recess, o, in the jaw D', and is held in place therein by two ears, p, projecting loosely over it from the jaw D. rlhe nut is rounded on its inner face, so as to enable it to rock in the chamber in a manner to enable the jaws while being drawn by the screw to adaptthemselves to the dasher and the whipj socket. Were the screw to screw into the jaw D', or a Common nut having its bearing-face in a plane at right angles to the axis of the screw, the jaws, in being drawn together,would be liable to bind on the whip-socket, and not on the dasher, or on the latter and not on the former; but by having the nut round, as shown yin Fig. 3, (and on au enlarged scale at q in Fig.

10,) the jaws can easily be caused to fit both to the whip-socket body and the dasher, the

screw going loosely through a slot, i, in the jaw D.

I claiml. Awhipsocket having its upper end or cap and the elastic diaphragm thereof inclined to the axis of the bore of such socket, and also having in the diaphragm a circular, aperture for reception of a whip when introduced into the socket.

2. The elastic-diaphragm holder, substantially as described, consisting of the annular cap and the studdedannnlus arranged in such cap, and with the elastic diaphragm therein, as set forth.

3. The diaphragm elliptical annular cap provided with the fastening-holes, arranged in 5. The n11b-oarrying duplex jaw oha-mbered or recessed to receive the nut, and provided Io ibas represented, and held to the upper @lmnp by hooked Wires applied to such holes And clamp, as Set forth. with ears, as represented, to hold it; in connee- 4. The lower cla-mp composed of the two tion with it, (the said jam) as explained. 5 duplex jaws, theirfastening-serew, and roeker- ERASTUS VILBER SCOTT.

nut, arranged as shown, one of such jaws havllng 1n it; a slot to receive the screw, as represented.

Vtnesses:

EDGAR M. WARNER, WILLIAM S. SIMMON. 

